[Dovecot] Run fetchmail after login?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Feb 20 09:56:50 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 04:00 +0000, Brett B. wrote:
> Hello all, I was wondering if it is possible to run fetchmail 
> after a user logs into dovecot? So far I have tried to make a 
> small script that contains the command for fetchmail. Then I 
> told the dovecot mail_executable to look at that script. 
> However this ends up leaving the server hanging and does not
> seem to work. 

Well that should work as long as you execute the imap/pop3 binary
afterwards. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting

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